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Swedish Exodus /
""America fever"" gripped Sweden in the middle of the nineteenth century, seethed to a peak in 1910, when one-fifth of the world's Swedes lived in America, cooled during World War I, and chilled to dead ash with the advent of the Great Depression in 1930.Swedish Exodus, the...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Swedish |
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Carbondale :
Published for Swedish Pioneer Historical Society by Southern Illinois University Press,
1996, 2008.
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| Edición: | Pbk. ed. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations and Figures; Preface; 1. They Left for America; 2. Group Emigration from Sweden and Stage Migration in the United States; 3. Mass Emigration from Sweden; 4. America for Sale; 5. They Sold America; Gallery #1; 6. Bound for America; 7. Who Were They and Where Did They Settle?; 8. Swedes Become Americans; Gallery #2; 9. Americanization; 10. The Consequences of Emigration in Sweden; Annual Emigration from and Remigration to Sweden 1851-1940; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; Author Bio; Back Cover